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Byline: adam LEWIS Editor Fund Strategy Securities Trust of Scotland manager Alan Porter says a stable US housing market, recovery in bank lending and healthy company balance sheets are reasons [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy On his third anniversary, Stewart Cowley, the manager of Old Mutual Select Managed attributes the portfolio's good performance to flexible tactics and some timely [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy The managers of the City Merchants High Yield trust were unfazed by Bestinvest's sell rating on the fund and insist there are excellent opportunities [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy Critics say the planned replacement of total expense ratios with 'ongoing charges' figures will lack transparency, but the AIC says it will make comparisons [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy The high valuation on defensive stocks has persuaded Cazenove Multi-Manager Diversity fund managers Marcus Brookes and Robin McDonald to raise cash as a means [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy Aberdeen has transformed the trust it took over from Bramdean, turning it into a pure private equity fund that its managers expect to profit [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy As IFAs show signs of warming to the appeal of closed-ended funds, experts sound a warning that some trusts might find themselves unable to [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy Gains for both long and short-term performance show investment trusts outpaced open-ended funds, with small caps and UK growth portfolios delivering top results in [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy Market falls last August hit Witan investment trust, wiping out gains from the previous year, but the manager was not spooked to change the [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has seen good returns in the last decade and the fund's manager plans to continue this performance with a [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy Two of the four funds in the Invesco Perpetual Select Trust have undergone changes in strategy. In the global equity asset class, a change [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund StrategyInvestment trusts will have a 'head start' in the supposed level playing field after RDR, says Collins Stewart, but it will be those that meet [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund StrategyMarket volatility exacted its toll on performance of all funds in the IMA Global, Global Bonds and Global Emerging Markets sectors. Only one portfolio bucked [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy IMA Active Managed funds struggled to stay in positive territory over one and three years as events hit most asset classes, although cash and [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy The manager of the Securities Trust of Scotland overhauled the portfolio after its change in mandate, turning a domestic bias into a global one, [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy After a change to its benchmark, the new manager of the British Assets Trust tweaked its asset allocations, which, he says, will give more [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy As property income funds regain favour with investors, the Invista Property Foundation trust aims to strengthen its position with a new manager, Schroder Property [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy The manager of TR European Growth tightened the small-cap focus, but is not worried by the wider discount, as he says it is only [...]

Byline: Stefanie Eschenbacher , Adam Lewis Richard Plackett has handed the management of his BlackRock UK Smaller Companies fund to Ralph Cox. Cox has been managing the Au328m fund alongside [...]